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Importing your personal By Moderator
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National gay of prayerindings
Spain
Was there really a clear distinction between church and state in
that time and place?
as
Again, were the roles of church and state really so discrete?
of
The Crusaders didn't have the killing technology we had in the
twentieth century.
Perhaps. I'm less concerned about which religion he might have
used than with there being a religious connection.
I suppose that could smoke out the worst of them.
Brad
By BRAD REDDEKOPP
to DAVE OLDRIDGE - Oct 1st, 2001 -
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Anti-war rallyMore shit from Fox.
for
Yeah, ain't it just SOOOOO horrible that these people want to use the 1rst
amendment right to protest, that Smirk, Assholecroft and such want to burn?
several
following the
Morschhauser, 37,
of
stars
have
He's right.
Just look at what is STILL going on, 10 years after the Gulf War.
spreading out
lyrics
turned
demonstrators.
arrests.
including
protest the
pepper
officers.
in
Usama
attacks.
Your dream has come true, Jeff!
You made into Fox news!
By ROSS SAUER
to JEFF BINKLEY - Oct 1st, 2001 -
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"GOD'S PLAN" ?of
One of my illustrations of a low probability event is a year's worth of
duplicate bridge hands at a typical club. Such a compilation presents
an event that is far less probable than picking a particular single
electron out of all of them.
MM 1.1 #0357 Can I blame all of my spelling on line noise?
By Dave Oldridge
to Jeff Binkley - Oct 1st, 2001 -
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National gay of prayerIt certainly does NOT clear the men involved, whether they were popes
in a council chamber or paupers in a mob.
No, that's pretty much plain history. Most of the burnings were in
Spain and were for heresy, not witchcraft. And the heresy was a
trumped up charge against Christians of Jewish descent that the
Spanish government wanted gone.
And much of the rest of the "burning" was part of the Protestant vs.
Catholic nonsense that messed up Europe for By Dave Oldridge
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Picnicone?
Wonder on. Seek and ye shall find.
It's your abusive tone. In my experience, people who indulge in bouts
of silly, gratuitous abuse for the sake of reading their own bad prose
usuall do so, not to seek answers, but to prop up an ego that is at
once the object of their faith and of their doubts...
MM 1.1 #0357 Who is General Failure and why is he reading my disk?
By Dave Oldridge
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"GOD'S PLAN" ?Around here, the power goes out when there is a lightning
strike in the midst of a great electrical storm. It is
a little hard to predict the exact instant though.
Say what? Look, you are the one who brought it up. You
want me to look up to see what you are talking about?
Are you too good to explain yourself, or what?
I'll tell you though, that this infinitesimal could not
be a positive value. If one were By Ed Connell
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"GOD'S PLAN" ?What, besides the convenience, causes you to surmise
that though the movement of the hand is continuous
while running, the set of stopping positions is not
dense?
Ed
By Ed Connell
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Global CustomsYou have real problems and you have my sympathy.
I'm sure Don is thrilled that you came to his defense,
or were you merely attacking me? Whatever. It was sweet.
Now here is a great example for what I mean by
psuedo-intellectual. Look at the stuff you and
Don CHOOSE to discuss. I don't even want to
repeat it, so you will have to look above.
By the way, you didn't say whether you believed
Don or not, but knowing By Ed Connell
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An Answer to your QuestioAnd you know this how?
(uh-uh, assumed for the sake of discussion)
The issue was Don's stating that given certain attributes,
God should have done something about that attrocity. My
question was in the same context, but Don decided that rather
than explain his context, he was going to play the intellectual make that the wounded intellectual who if only he were
represented correctly by the rabble was just chomping at the
bit (oops, some of my rabbleness By Ed Connell
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Conservative idiotsNote from Ross: With "leaders" like these, is it any wonder the Sewer
sharks post the stupidity they do?
The Top Ten Conservative Idiots (Week 38)
October 1, 2001
Ari Force One Edition
The national crisis seems to be bringing out the best in some people,
and the worst in others. Ari "come fly our friendly lies" Fleischer (1)
is steadfastly failing to follow his own advice, Bret Schundler (2) has
figured out that using the World Trade Center disaster By ROSS SAUER
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Tim's "source"Note from Ross: With a "source" like this, is it any wonder Tim's whacko
obsession with gay cooties is so pronounced?
Conservative Group Assails White House 'Trend' on Gays
By Ben White
Sunday, September 30, 2001; Page A04
In a clear sign that not all politics has taken on a restrained tone
since the terrorist attacks, the conservative Family Research Council
issued a blistering critique of the Bush administration last week,
accusing the White House of giving an "implicit endorsement" By ROSS SAUER
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APPROPRIATE NAMED THmy books
if
being
stuff,
Well, meet one. But then I'm probably the ORIGINAL home user in these
parts. My Altair 8800A was either the first or the second personal
computer in the province. I ran that tiny OS that the Altair shipped with,
then the SMB on my Xitan, then CP/M, DOS, Unix, Windows 3.0 and 3.1.
OS/2 through Warp 4, Linux and lately NT.
If M$ truly screws the pooch, they will find out about it when they
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